[PDF] Top 20 Ant colony optimization techniques for the hamiltonian p-median problem

... k-th ant may either follows the most favorable path already established or may randomly select a path to follow based on a probability distribution established by distance and pheromone ...time the ... See full document

... of the rich sources of inspiration for inventing new intelligent ...of the scientific fields that are based on natural swarms, such as ant colonies, bee colonies, group behavior of bacterium, rivers ... See full document

... Salesman Problem (TSP) is a Non-deterministic Polynomial-time (NP-Hard) problem in combinatorial optimization area [7] and common among the ...in the other side, NP-Hard is also ... See full document

... on the biological evolution or biological behavior of members in a ...where the dynamics of group becomes the sole reason for its ...is the name given to the mechanism or system where ... See full document

... The problem of structure extraction from the image which contains many clustered objects is a challenging one for high level image ...hiding the structure. The existing segmentation ... See full document

... of the many decay functions analyzed, the exponential decay techniques in ACO are more applicable for dynamic networks like ...MANETs. The limitation of this technique is pheromone evaporates ... See full document

... determining the coverage, connectivity, cost and lifetime of a Wireless Sensor Network ...of the devices can address the coverage and connectivity issues. The rest of the devices can be ... See full document

... of the ants has a number of interesting ...instead, the organization of the behavior emerges from the simple rules of stigmergic communication that are followed by the individual ...to ... See full document

... often, the use of pure Evo- lutionary Algorithms has a lack of performance, namely in the optimization of large combinatorial problems ...Moreover, the majority of the evolutionary ... See full document

... are the building blocks of ...has the same fundamental structure, differing only in the side- chain, designated the ...R-group. The carbon atom to which the amino group, carboxyl ... See full document

... improving the performance in randomly distributed Wireless Sensor Networks ...(WSNs). The goal is to find the optimal routing not only to maximize the lifetime of the network but also ... See full document

... obra The Ant Colony, direcionada para um público juvenil e que se foca nos problemas de Sam, um adolescente que foge de casa e que procura o anonimato numa grande cidade, bem como nas importantes ... See full document

... In the consensus approach, a string representing the motif is used to scan the input sequences in search of subsequences similar to ...by the positional approach. Similarly, a set of ... See full document

... (2008), the authors examined multiobjective versions of several variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) in terms of their objectives, their characteristics and the types of proposed ... See full document

... others Ant Colony Optimization algorithms, MONACO mimics the ant’s for- aging behaviour supported by a communication process, which relies on a chemical pheromone trail, signalling a good path ... See full document

... with the discovery of interesting patterns and knowledge in data ...to the core methods of data mining is the process of discovering homogeneous groups called ...objects, the goal in most ... See full document

... problems. The problem of scheduling jobs on a single machine against the common due date with respect to earliness and tardiness penal- ties is also known as an optimization ...each ant ... See full document

... The electricity industry has undergone profound changes in recent years, resulting in significant changes in economic relations in the generation, transmission, and distribution sectors. This is also ... See full document

... Nowadays, optimization techniques based on the analogy with swarming principles and collective activities of social species in nature have been used in the development of methodologies for ... See full document

... consider the problem of justifying vertex weights of a tree under uncertain costs so that a prespecified vertex become optimal and the total cost should be optimal in the uncertainty ... See full document